RTF output full of ?

Afraima · 01-04-2010, 03:14 PM

Good evening everybody,

Totally love calibre as it is so easy to use but have one major problem with it. When I convert a lit file to RTF output, the text is full of question marks (?) and I can't seem to find why it does that.
- she'd => she?d
- weren't => weren?t
- each sentence also begins with a question mark.
What am I doing wrong ?

Have a nice evening,
Afraima

kovidgoyal · 01-04-2010, 04:35 PM

The RTF output doesn't support non ascii characters like curly quotes, etc.

jackie_w · 01-04-2010, 06:28 PM

Hi Afraima,

You could try ticking the "Transliterate unicode characters to ASCII" in [Convert] - [Look & Feel].

See if that gives you a better conversion.

Afraima · 01-05-2010, 01:51 PM

Good evening,
Thank you Jackie, your tip worked very well. The text now looks perfect.
I learn something new every day.

To Kovid Goyal,
I love Calibre, it makes life easier for a lot of people, thank you for spending so much time trying to answer our little problems.

Have a nice evening,
Afraima

01-04-2010, 03:14 PM	#1
Afraima Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Cybook Gen3	RTF output full of ? Good evening everybody, Totally love calibre as it is so easy to use but have one major problem with it. When I convert a lit file to RTF output, the text is full of question marks (?) and I can't seem to find why it does that. - she'd => she?d - weren't => weren?t - each sentence also begins with a question mark. What am I doing wrong ? Have a nice evening, Afraima

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01-04-2010, 04:35 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The RTF output doesn't support non ascii characters like curly quotes, etc.

01-04-2010, 06:28 PM	#3
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,208 Karma: 16534692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: Kobo: KA1, ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E. PocketBook: TouchHD3	Hi Afraima, You could try ticking the "Transliterate unicode characters to ASCII" in [Convert] - [Look & Feel]. See if that gives you a better conversion.

01-05-2010, 01:51 PM	#4
Afraima Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Cybook Gen3	Good evening, Thank you Jackie, your tip worked very well. The text now looks perfect. I learn something new every day. To Kovid Goyal, I love Calibre, it makes life easier for a lot of people, thank you for spending so much time trying to answer our little problems. Have a nice evening, Afraima

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